Pridesale 1st Dec 2018
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BLAZING AHEAD
Transdev’s Alex Hornby says that he aims to ‘end the bus as we know it’
FIXING FIRST SOUTH WEST
Why the business was shrunk and is now expanding
RIGHT COACH, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
The West Country express services of Berry’s of Taunton
THE BELTON BUS
A 27-year-old Metrobus serving the Isle of Axholme
REGULARS
COMMENT
Changes in England’s cities
NEWS
The Bus Services Bill; terminus for Silcox; Walsall 56 booked for Gaydon; WebberBus collapses; McLoughlin dewires Leeds trolleybus; First plans Scottish cutbacks; Arriva faces CMA inquiry; Go South Coast orders from Alexander Dennis; New MD for Stagecoach Yorkshire
INSIDE TRACK
A real opportunity
GLOBAL NEWS
First SuperLo Enviro500 built for Ontario; Australia’s Bustech builds double-deck coach; students conceive their Paris bus for 2035; electric propulsion developments; video games on German coach lines
LOOK IN ON LONDON
Arriva makes gains in tender rounds; new mayor Khan announces Hopper fare and says no more orders for NRM; Routemaster ST hits the road; BYD sampled in service; running day marks 50th anniversary of the end of the RTW
MILLAR’S TALES
Going Dutch in Gloucestershire; new take on that universal measurement confuses metric and imperial; mysterious single malt Islay Regent; a bus for Batman
PICTUREVIEW
Eclipse in a Circus
IDENTITY PARADE
Brombus for the Baggies
FENTON FILE
A postwar Leyland Cub with rare coach body
YOU WRITE
Bus Services Bill is bad for passengers; TfL should take second staircase and third door out of NRM; a need for better bus/train coordination; for and against litter bins
PRESERVATION UPDATE
Scout’s honour restored with Haslingden PD2; RVPT running day in Morecambe; relaunch for Aberdeen collection; Eastbourne running day is cancelled
FLEET NEWS ENGLAND & WALES
Compiled by John G. Lidstone
FLEET NEWS SCOTLAND
Compiled by Sandy Macdonald
FLEET NEWS IRELAND
Compiled by Paul Savage and Ian Molloy
REVIEWS
Books on East Kent, Swiss Postbuses and some popular annuals on London buses and two of the big groups |